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Small Optimizations
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Resources
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In the Aftermath
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👭 Don't go without a buddy
⛺️ Only camp with people who are excellent campers
☀️ Make sure your tent/sleeping structure is shaded
🌪 Always keep everything zipped up and strapped down
🤓 If you care about measurable impacts to your intelligence, skip MDMA
🌟 Take the opportunity to collect fun light sources for you, your backpack, your bike, etc.
😷 Get a good + comfortable mask and carry it with you at all times
😎 Don’t forget sunscreen and eye protection (for dust and sun) maybe a hat too?
🗓 Make room for spontaneous discoveries and changes of plan, but set itineraries anyway
🚲 Bring a bike
🚰 Stay hydrated
🧘♀️Pee funnels/containers
🚽 Little rolls of single ply TP in snack-sized ziplocks
🚰 7 gallon water container (also great for general emergency preparedness)
🥤Lidded liquid container (e.g. a small nalgene)
🐫 Slim Camelback water backpack
🛁 Wet wipes
🔓Zip ties
🚲 Advice: Keep your bike locks latched whenever you're not using them
🌈 Rainbow bike wheel light
✨ Metallic temporary tattoos & long-lasting temporary tattoos
🎶 Annual music guide curated by Rock Star Librarian
📍A map for finding your friends
🏜 Burning Man fb group
📕 The official survival guide
🧳 See also Spencer Greenberg's "Burning Man Packing List" on the Things from My Friends page.
🏥 Health advice
ℹ️ Real-time info e.g. for whether the gate is open
🏨 Consider staying at the Peppermill in Reno for a couple nights
🎈 If you can swing it, stay in Reno until at least Friday and you can go to the great hot air balloon “races”
🌬 Consider an (electric) air compressor, instead of trying to clean with water
👕 Use vinegar in your laundry (but assume that your clothes, especially whites, will never be the same)
📦 Set aside time to go through all your stuff now
🚙 If you live in the Bay Area, consider getting your car detailed at the Lafayette car wash